http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/consolidating-5-or-6-physical-servers-into-one/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/consolidating-5-or-6-physical-servers-into-one/#comment-86666 The Most-Watched IT Questions: January 18, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:35:58 +0000 #comment-86666 [...] 1. Spadasoe and mrdenny helped out a member trying to consolidate 5 or 6 physical servers into one. [...]

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/consolidating-5-or-6-physical-servers-into-one/#comment-86361 The Most-Watched IT Questions: January 11, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:33:46 +0000 #comment-86361 [...] 1. Spadasoe and mrdenny suggested virtualization for a member trying to consolidate 5 or 6 servers into one. [...]

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/consolidating-5-or-6-physical-servers-into-one/#comment-86077 spadasoe Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:37:29 +0000 #comment-86077 I currently use Hyper-V in a 2008 cluster with iscsi attached storage. Windows 2008 R2 failover clusters are quite robust and provide a good platform for virtualization. If you go with Hyper-V, check pricing for the server version. Enterprise 2008 provides 4 free Hyper-V licenses where standard doesn’t, and enterprise is also required to support larger memory configurations.

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